Filter by
Improving Flood Risk Management in Informal Settlements of Cape Town
During the month of July 2007, unrelenting rains dumped over 120 millimetres of rain over a period of five days on the City of Cape Town, leading to flooding that impacted 8 000 households (38 000 residents) located primarily in the informal settlements outside of the City, such as the Bongani TR Section of Khayelitsha (Figure 1) and Phola Park Philippi. Such flooding is increasingly common an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 1-86
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Planning System and Flood Risk Management
The planning system plays a major national and local role in ensuring that development is promoted and guided in a manner that is sustainable in economic, social and environmental terms. The Government’s National Spatial Strategy 2002-2020, the National Development Plan 2007-2013, the National Sustainable Development Strategy - Making Ireland’s Development Sustainable (2002) and the Planni…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4064-2467-6
- Collation
- 1-82
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Flood Risk Management
The concepts of flood risk management (FRM) have been widely embraced over the past decade. In many instances this conceptual acceptance has resulted in changes to decision-making practice, highlighting risk management as potentially more complex, but more efficient and effective in delivering multiple goals, than a traditional engineering standards-based approach. In particular, the emergence…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 1-206
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography